locust odor test (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

locust odor test

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Barani Raman and his lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering studied the behavior of locusts and how the neurons in their brains responded to appealing and unappealing odors to learn more about how the brain encodes for preferences and how it learns.

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Photo: Raman lab, Washington University in St. Louis

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